Is Gene-Therapy Medical Treatment Ready for Prime Time?

Courtesy TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Fri, 11/27/2009 - 03:55

After years of complications and high-profile setbacks, a series of small but intriguing advances has suggested that gene therapy may hold real future potential for treatment


 

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